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Week starting Saturday, November 17, 2012

Degas: A New Vision offers the most significant international survey in nearly 30 years of the work of Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas. The MFAH is the only U.S. venue for this exhibition, which assembles some 200 works from public and private collections around the world.

How do art and conflict intersect? This month's Members tour explores works of art that examine ideas of art and conflict, as seen through the minds and eyes of artists. Space is limited, and spots fill[…]

Enjoy festive music and complimentary refreshments as you create your own one-of-a kind decorations. Drop in anytime. All materials are provided. Present your membership card for admission. Not a Member? Join today!

When it comes to the work of British artist Ewan Gibbs, there is definitely more than originally meets the eye. Join this 20-minute gallery talk to explore his painstaking process of making drawings look like[…]

After reading the MFAH Book Tours selection for fall 2012—In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason—join this tour for a look at photographs in the exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath that relate to the novel. Copies of In[…]

Working in an expatriate community in turn-of-the-century Paris, African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937) infused his religious paintings with the modernist sensibility of the times. Explore the retrospective Modern Spirit on this 45-minute gallery talk.[…]

Join this 20-minute gallery talk to explore the work of two men who made some of the most powerful photographs in the history of journalism. W. Eugene Smith and James Nachtwey were born 30 years apart, but[…]

Presented by Ross King, author of the new book Leonardo and "The Last Supper." Among his other critically acclaimed publications are Brunelleschi’s Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence ​and The Judgment of Paris: The[…]